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Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)Betsy Reed, Graduate Assistant, and Kira A. Dietz, Archivist
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The collection is open for research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Samuel A. Creelman Papers, Ms1984-178, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Samuel A. Creelman Papers were donated to Special Collections in 1984 and 1989.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Samuel A. Creelman Papers was completed in September 2013.
Samuel A. Creelman was a native of Pennsylvania. He served as a Union soldier during the American Civil War in Company A of the 101st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was captured and taken prisoner at Plymouth, North Carolina, on April 20, 1864. He spent the months of May through September of 1864 at the prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia. In September of 1864 he was then moved to the prison camp at Florence, South Carolina.
After the war, Creelman settled in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. He became the president of the Wilkinsburg Building and Loan Association, a justice of the peace, and an active member in the Western Pennsylvania Audubon Society. He died in 1906 in his home in Wilkinsburg from heart failure.
Samuel A. Creelman, a native of Pennsylvania, served as Union soldier in the American Civil War in Company A of the 101st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. This collection consists of letters written by Creelman to his family and friends from various camps in Virginia during 1861 and 1862. In the letters, Creelman details the day to day details of camp life, inquires about people on the homefront, and discusses friends who died. After the Civil War, Creelman renounced Christianity and marked over certain passages of a religious nature from the letters.
The collection includes and address written by Creelman titled "Origin and Destiny, or My View of Life and Death," with the instructions, "To be read at my funeral instead of sermon," which expresses some of Creelman's views on life and death. The collection contains obituaries and a copy of Collections of Coffee Cooler , published in 1890 and written by Creelman about his war experiences, especially his capture at Plymouth, North Carolina, and his subsequent imprisonment at Andersonville, Georgia, and Florence, South Carolina.
The items are arranged in the order in which they were received.
The guide to the Samuel A. Creelman Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).